Category: <span>CCS News</span>

The tech world is reeling from a Bloomberg report that China installed surveillance microchips into tech giants’ hardware. Siddharth Garg, hardware cybersecurity expert, explains the differences between hardware and software attacks and the risks.

Election security is a significant concern going into the midterms, just two years after apparent Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Justin Cappos, Professor at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering joins us to discuss just how safe America’s polls are.

Founder of New York University (NYU) Tandon School of Engineering’s cybersecurity program and Associate Dean for Online Learning Professor Nasir Memon has been in the thick of cybersecurity education for the last 20 years. He sees some compelling related challenges in executive-level cybersecurity education. “First, as the CISO function is relatively nascent, we saw a...

Hackers getting their hands on access tokens means they could essentially take over people’s accounts. Damon McCoy, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at New York University, explained to NBC News what cyber criminals might do with the stolen information. “Some examples of how a Facebook account might have been misused include adding/deleting friends,...

… A team at NYU Tandon School of Engineering has found a way to prove the provenance of a part by employing QR (Quick Response) codes in an innovative way for unique device identification. … Noted materials researcher Nikhil Gupta, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at NYU Tandon; Fei Chen, a doctoral student under...

The security issue Facebook announced on Friday has alarmed researchers who say attackers collected information that not only gave access to sensitive information on Facebook, but also could be used to access many websites that use the social network’s ‘Login with Facebook’ function. … Damon McCoy, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at New...

… China and Hong Kong are the origin of more than 80% of the world’s supply of fake goods, according to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development. … To open a store, all that’s required is a business name, an address, a phone number, a government-issued ID and an international credit card. The simplicity...

Here’s the trailer for an episode of a new cinéma-vérité series, “Follow This,” produced by BuzzFeed. The episode, live today, is about  the nefarious practice of “swatting.” It features Damon McCoy.

“If I wake up and I see millions of vehicles crash due to cyberattacks, I’m going to assume that’s a nation-state actor,” said Justin Cappos, a computer science professor at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering who has worked on methods for securing vehicles from a cyberattack. “It does require certain facilities that a...

Damon McCoy, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at New York University, also advised that users check their “Security and Login” settings in Facebook. Go to Facebook and click on the arrow in the top right. Click on “Settings” and then “Security and Login.” Check “Where you’re logged in” for suspicious sessions. If you...